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Mar 6 By Africa for Africa

Worth reading this article by Magatte Wade in Medium on the entrepreneurial environment in Senegal and why she advocates supporting local entrepreneurs over foreign businesspeople and donors.

In the past sixty years, governments have spent hundreds of billions in aid to Africa. NGO activity in Africa has become such a joke among locals that there is actually a Kenyan sitcom called The Samaritans, and a card game created by a Ugandan, Jaded Aid, that laughs about the dynamic between white NGO workers and locals. Meanwhile, China and India are gradually becoming middle class nations — thanks in part to entrepreneurial value creation.